Productive farming . wild and ferocious. To obtain the best results in swine management, it isnecessary to keep pure bred or high grade swine. Theyfatten easier, mature at an earlier age, and are larger thanthe scrubs. In the United States more swine are raised thanany other class of live stock except cattle. Their value tothe farmers is estimated at nearly one-half billion dollars. Types of Swine.—There are a number of breeds of swine,but only a few have become very popular in America. They SWINE 279 are classified as: first, lard or fat type; and second, the haconor leaji type. The form of t
Productive farming . wild and ferocious. To obtain the best results in swine management, it isnecessary to keep pure bred or high grade swine. Theyfatten easier, mature at an earlier age, and are larger thanthe scrubs. In the United States more swine are raised thanany other class of live stock except cattle. Their value tothe farmers is estimated at nearly one-half billion dollars. Types of Swine.—There are a number of breeds of swine,but only a few have become very popular in America. They SWINE 279 are classified as: first, lard or fat type; and second, the haconor leaji type. The form of the body in the fat type is com-pact, deep, broad, and low, with short back and deep, fatsides; the neck is short and thick; head small; hams andshoulders large. The bacon type has long legs, long neck,coarse head, narrow back, long and deep sides, in manyrespects the very opposite of the fat type. Bacon swine arekept for their fine lean cuts of bacon. The demand for thistype is not so great in America as in Fig. 1S5.—The lard tj-pe, a Poland China sow. Color, black with white markings. Breeds of the Fat Type.—The most popular breeds ofSRine in America, of the fat type, are Poland China, Berkshire,Chester White, and Duroc-Jersey. Others of less prominenceare Cheshire, Victoria, Small Yorkshire, Essex, and Suffolk. America has produced very few new breeds of horses,cattle or sheep, but a number of good breeds of swine havebeen developed here. Swine from Europe are not so wellsuited to the use of American field corn as to the grains oftheir owti country. Many of the English breeds are of thebacon type and ?nnll not thrive on corn. The Berkshire is theonly very popular English breed in this country. The PolandChina originated in Ohio, the Chester White in ChesterCounty, Pennsylvania, and the Duroc-Jersey in New Jersey. 280 PRODUCTIVE FARMING The Poland China (Fig. 185) and the Berkshire are bothbhick, with some white markings on the face, legs or otherparts. The Ches
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